Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Stanza d’Eliodoro: Deliverance of St Peter from Prison
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Stanza d’Eliodoro: Deliverance of St Peter from Prison
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Alternate Title:
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Deliverance of St Peter from Prison
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Image View:
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Right side, the angel guides St. Peter from the prison as the guards sleep
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Creator:
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Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy)
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Location Note:
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Vatican Apartments, Stanza d’Eliodoro
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GPS:
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+41.906389+12.454444
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Date:
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ca. 1512-1514 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance; Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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660 cm (width, at base)
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Description:
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The Stanza d’Eliodoro (Heliodorus) was originally used for the private audiences of the Pope and was decorated by Raphael immediately after the Segnatura. The room's program is political and aims at documenting, in different historical moments from the Old Testament to medieval history, the miraculous protection bestowed by God on the Church. Faith had been threatened (Mass of Bolsena), in the person of its pontiff (Liberation of St. Peter), in its site (Encounter of Leo the Great with Attila) and in its patrimony (Expulsion of Heliodorus from the temple). These were also chosen to express the political program of Julius II (pontiff from 1503 to 1513), aimed at freeing Italy from the French. (Source: Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) [website]; http://mv.vatican.va/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RS-VM-DSP-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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